1.1: Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services

To reduce ecosystem degradation by helping governments, businesses, and development agencies integrate ecosystem services into their policies, strategies, and investments.

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Our strategy is two-fold: (1) Provide decisionmakers with information and assessment tools that link ecosystem health with the attainment of economic and social goals; (2) Develop economic incentives and policy options that restore and sustain ecosystems. Target outcomes likely before 2012 include: - The governments of the United States and other countries restore their wetlands in order to protect shorelines from storm surges and to mitigate flooding in floodplains. - Developing countries increase funding for forest restoration and sustainable management in order to enhance livelihoods of the rural poor and their ability to adapt to climate change.

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